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Industrial Designs Industrial Design has value in its appearance

Design can be any three dimensional (toy,chair, bottle and the like) or two dimensional (greeting card or the like) article but does not expect to have any functional characteristics.

Any design will be granted protection if it is new and not of scandalous nature or not contrary to morality, public order or public interests. New means it should not have been made available to the public anywhere in the world before the date of application for registration.

A registered design is protected for five years and renewable for two more periods of five years consecutively.

The first filing number, filing date and country/region, if the priority

is claimed. (The certified copy of the Priority Documents should be submitted within three months from filing in Sri Lanka .)

4. Power of Attorney executed by the applicant(s).Need not be legalized/notarized.

(Industrial design takes about 06 months for registration )

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Colombo Law Society

National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka

Asia Patent Attorneys Association

The Law Association for Asia and the Pacific

Patent Information Users Group Inc. USA

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